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Plot Summary:
A detective investigates a series of killings committed by a serial killer known as "The Black Angel." He begins to suspect that it might not be just a random group of murders.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, relaxing, erotic, crying, independent film
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Wheeler (1975)
Plot Summary:
A drifter/hitman is hired by a local business man to kidnap the local oil baron. The hitman had been reared in squalor, suffering the abuses of his whoring mama. When the baron escapes his assistant must chase him while the hitman takes care of a few loose ends.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, independent film, grindhouse, weird, cult film, low-budget
Similar in 77%
The Banker (1989)
Plot Summary:
High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, slasher, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 79%
Iced (1989)
Plot Summary:
A group of childhood friends are invited to the opening of a posh ski resort, unaware that an old nemesis has murderous plans in mind for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film, slasher horror
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Body Parts (1992)
Plot Summary:
A psycho videotapes his dismemberment of strippers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, slasher
Similar in 79%
Grave Danger (2009)
Plot Summary:
Home alone, Becky (Debbie Kopacz) is already on edge from a night of watching scary movies when an anonymous caller takes her terror to the brink by forcing her to trade spooky stories with him in this Jim Haggerty-helmed horror flick. Tales of murderous ventriloquist dummies, housewives ensnared by voodoo and more follow in an agonizing game of one-upmanship that could end up with Becky dead. Cathy St. George and Vic Martino co-star.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale, independent film, low-budget
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Crowley (1987)
Plot Summary:
In a small, coastal colonial town, a clawed vampire rises from the ground near an old cemetery. He immediately attack couple. The bodies are found and then taken to a coroner's office, where the doctor does a thorough examination, not only discovering the girl has been completely drained dry but also that there are puncture wounds and traces of human saliva on her neck. He takes his findings to his police inspector friend. After another girl is attacked and killed in the same manner, the two men ponder whether the killer is a psycho who only fancies himself a vampire. Even more bloodless corpses turning up all over town and a funeral home reporting a coffin being stolen fail to convince them one way or another.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Horror
Country: Uruguay
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Diary of a Serial Killer (1995)
Plot Summary:
This is like a CAT III version of the classic sick flick Maniac (1980) but as depressing and mean-spirited as another classic Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986): unable to satisfy his sexual desires with his wife, Bill regularly visits prostitutes. Afterwards, he ties up and tortures them in various ways before killing them. Bill believes that if they die, they will be reincarnated and have a better life. He murders over a dozen people. One day, a young woman named Jade comes to stay with Bill's family. He falls in love with her but is afraid that he will kill her, so he makes her leave. Jade has nowhere to go and starts working as a prostitute. When Bill finds Jade doing this, he has sex with her and gets her pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, erotic, slasher
Similar in 75%
Dead Easy (2004)
Plot Summary:
A married couple are about to face a series of difficult problems. The two engage in an escalating series of infidelities and mind games that could very well lead to their mutual destruction.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Psycho Lover (1970)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife, but with a new twist: he will brainwash a patient he is treating into committing the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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The Young Nurses (1973)
Plot Summary:
Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Breaking Her Will (2009)
Plot Summary:
BREAKING HER WILL follows the path of one of the most twisted villains ever to appear on screen. What he does to his captive hitch hiker creates an atmosphere of utterly demented sleaze. Written by Bill Zebub.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sexy, controversial, queer horror, erotic
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Evil Come Evil Go (1972)
Plot Summary:
A religious fanatic murders people who are engaging in sex.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult film
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Shower of Blood (2004)
Plot Summary:
Creepy uncle Marty is having a ball as his niece and her sexy friends pop in (and out) at his secluded house in the woods to use his shower, discover dark secrets and develop a taste for blood.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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The Hand of pleasure (1971)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist named Dr. Dreadful leads a terrorist organization called the Hand of Pleasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
Similar in 76%
Satanic (2006)
Plot Summary:
Michelle wakes from an accident with no memory, then she has nightmares and people around her die.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Dead Students Society (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nikko and Nora aren't your average siblings. She's a sultry serial killer, and he's her voyeuristic accomplice. She poses as a literature professor who tempts students into her lair, where she teases them with erotic poetry before ….
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Dinner for Two (2000)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to Cannibal Doctor. Misty Mundae plays her own sister who is tenderized, tickled, massaged, oiled and cooked for the dining pleasure of the mad doctor and his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Cannibal Doctor (1999)
Plot Summary:
A doctor (William Hellfire) and his wife (Tina Krause) are looking to consume a tender girl in order to stay young forever. Enter Michelle (Misty Mundae), a naïve to the point of dimwitted young lovely who comes in to the doc s office seeking a job and is persuaded into undergoing a check-up prior to being employed as a secretary.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags:
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Three on a Meathook (1972)
Plot Summary:
Four girls go on a romping weekend at a lake, and have car problems on the way home. A nice local boy takes them back to his farm, where he lives with his father. Something ghastly happens, but the father helps his son as he has in the past. When the boy meets a girl and begins falling in love, the father worries about a repeat performance.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, grindhouse, cult horror, independent film, surprise ending, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sorority House Massacre II (1990)
Plot Summary:
Five college women buy the old Hokstedter place for their new sorority house. They got it cheap because of the bloody incidents from five years before. They decide to stay in it for the night so they can meet the movers in the morning, but begin to get the creeps when the weird neighbor Orville Ketchum starts poking around. Shortly after the women take showers and consult a Ouija board they begin experiencing an attrition problem.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: slasher, splatter, erotic, suspenseful, bloody, serious, sexual, horror comedy, cult classic, psychotronic
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Hitch Hike to Hell (1977)
Plot Summary:
Howard is mild-mannered and slightly simple-minded, with a habit of picking up teenage hitchhikers while driving his delivery routes. Sometimes the girls admit to being runaways, and if they claim to hate their mothers it drives Howard into a violent frenzy; his sister ran away from home years ago and was never heard from again, causing his desperate, addled mother to tighten her hold on him. Howard never remembers raping his victims or strangling them with wire coat hangers, though his boss does notice missed deliveries and late arrivals.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film
Similar in 84%
Amateur Porn Star Killer (2006)
Plot Summary:
The unofficial story of a killer who kidnaps and kills three girls is told through the tale of his last victim, 'Amateur Porn Star Killer' is about a girl he picks up on the street and convinces to go back to his hotel room. The girl is shy, unnerved, and yet unable to take herself out of a bad situation. The killer is a guy who seems at first nothing more than your standard, 18 year old pervert with a penchant for filming his sexual escapades. An unsettling darkness descends.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, erotic, psychological, rough, bleak, tense, suspenseful, bloody, slasher
Similar in 78%
They're Playing with Fire (1984)
Plot Summary:
A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, sex comedy, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, slasher horror, independent film
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Teaser (1974)
Plot Summary:
College student Becky Bartolucci earns a living as a dancer at a nightclub. It's just a way for her to pay for her degree until one day, an obsessive customer reminds her how dangerous her job can be.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Passion's Obsession (2000)
Plot Summary:
Nicole, a female private detective, is hired by Angela Moore, a Hollywood talent agent, to locate a missing male model. The plot thickens when a ransom note is received by the police. Nicole uncovers the seamier side of Angela, the male model, and their friends, and finally discovers what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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The Casino Job (2009)
Plot Summary:
Barry Kaylin is living the dream. Not yet 40, he owns four Las Vegas casinos and lives the life of the bachelor to the fullest. One night, while meeting with two potential business associates, he hires five local dancers to flirt and lounge around his mansion and lagoon pool.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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An Erotic Werewolf in London (2006)
Plot Summary:
Misty and Ruby are a couple who run a lesbian bar in New Jersey when their lives change one night with the arrival of a seductive woman (Anoushka) who bites Misty, thus starting her slow transformation into a werewolf. Anoushka the werewolf returns to her home in London, England where she gives an interview to a young reporter about her life as a werewolf, while back in America, Misty undergoes a slow transformation into a werewolf herself which may lead to danger for Ruby, and any other woman involved.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, queer horror, erotic
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A Scream in the Streets (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two Los Angeles detectives are assigned to track down and arrest a brutal rapist-murderer terrorizing the city. Their job is complicated by the fact that the killer is able to avoid capture because he can pose as a woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Wicked Lake (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two clans of deranged males make the mistake of stalking four young women they assume to be easy prey, only to find out that at the stroke of midnight the tables will be turned and all hell will break loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, dark, scary, rough
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Green River Killer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Along twenty years, the deranged serial-killer Gary Ridgway has killed at least forty-eight prostitutes and dumped their bodies in Green River.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective, independent film